Hi everyone,
Well, no “Beach Buds” just yet. I searched all morning for another photo hosting site I might use, but when Rebecca called, she told me she would do a little research this evening and try to find something like what I had… So, I decided to try listing the set on Ebay, using their format. It took me several hours to do as I wasn’t used to it and kept having to check it and make revisions. I finally got things the way I wanted it and decided to try listing it. I had it scheduled to go on tonight, but the only thing was it wouldn’t let me make it as an auction… it was listed as a Buy It Now and there was NO WAY to change it. I tried 3 times to get the button for “auction” to turn from gray to black and it never would, so I gave in and called Ebay…
The girl that was helping me, tried a few things and couldn’t get the Auction format button to turn on either, so I was stuck…so was she. She tried quite a few things and nothing was helping. Then she said, let’s delete the listing and we’ll try listing it again… sort of like a reboot… and we can reset things.” When she said “delete” it, I hesitated for a minute, and I said, “I won’t lose what I’ve been working on the last 4 hours will I?” She said, “No, it will go into the “inactive file” and we can manage it from there. So… I hit the delete button and when she said, “Okay, now go to your listing…it should be on the top…” and it wasn’t there… you should have heard her ask 3 or 4 times… “on the top”, “on the top row”… nothing… ZERO pictures there. She tried everything… having me go here and do this, and I finally gave her the item number and said maybe this would help. Nothing… She got off the phone for a few minutes and tried a few more things. It had vanished, probably never to return. She even said, “Oh, Jeanne…” and I knew it was bad.
When she came back after taking another few minutes off the phone, she asked if she could call me back Wednesday afternoon… she was going to get the specialty tech guys to work on it and find my listing. I don’t think it will do much good…that’s why it always says around “delete” buttons… MAKE SURE YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING BEFORE YOU DELETE! I guess we’ll see, but I don’t have much hope and think I will have to start all over. If I had just left it alone and let it run as a Buy It Now, it wouldn’t have happened. But I needed to know what was wrong with that button, as I seldom do BIN listings. So, we’ll see… maybe those tech guys are really good!
Okay now, not to have to rely on a question, Elizabeth, down in Texas, sent me some wonderful pictures of a Ruby Red Fashion Friends 12″ Siblies doll and the WHOLE WESTERN ENSEMBLE she created.
These are the comments Elizabeth made on the blog yesterday… I added them here so you could make sense of them with the pictures… Get ready to be amazed!
Jeanne, I sent you my photos of the horse with the English saddle I made from thin black leather from my old wallet, and the Siblie doll wearing the Equestrian riding outfit, along with photos of the doll in her other outfits to go with this set. My grown daughter loved the set….her hubby videotaped her opening the gifts on his cellphone, and the first thing she said before she took the lid off of the Siblie Doll box was, “Oh….I have my own Siblie Doll!” She will save the set for a possible future Granddaughter she may have someday, and my daughter will share her love of horses with her. I told my daughter that if she only has a Grandson, Ruby Red sells a Boy-Siblie doll! By the time her Grandchild would be able to play with a Siblie, I may not be able to sew doll clothes or craft like I do now.
I had dressed the Siblie doll (Sunny) in the riding outfit when boxed and just tucked her purchased outfit into the box. The riding pants, jacket, and black riding hat were all made from separate 18 in. doll patterns which had to be reduced and tweaked a bit to fit the 12 in. Siblie. The tall black riding boots were made from felt with a long back-closure of velcro…all done by hand as I didn’t have leather that was super thin that I could have fed thru my sewing machine.
The cowgirl shirt/vest/skirt/hat and boots were all from a reproduced McCall’s pattern that sold for 35 cents back in the day! Found the pattern online, and it is for a 13 in. doll and only needed a bit of tweaking. I found that chamois cloth worked perfectly for the cowgirl hat and the short boots. The horse-print fabric for the dress was found at Hobby Lobby in the fat quarters section, and the solid resin horse (meant to be a fake wood-carved statue) came from there too. Had to fill-in places with air-dry clay, sand the horse, and painted him. The English saddle had 24 pages of photo instructions and took me two weeks to complete, along with the bridle/reins from yet a different pattern! Made an extra bridle and two lead ropes which are in the closet.
The closet is a converted Daphne’s Diary Advent Calendar which my daughter sent to me and it came as a “buy one/get one free” set. So I used the second one to turn into a wardrobe closet for the Siblie Doll!
I am missing the horse’s “company” as he sat on my work table for the entire time it took to make everything, so I purchased another horse from Hobby Lobby (I believe he was $16.99) and this horse will be painted to look like “Maximus”, the Palace horse from the animated Disney film titled “Tangled”! This film has always been a favorite of mine… for the animation of the horse, the storyline, the actors voices used for the characters. The horse’s actions and antics are so humorous…he really makes the film special. Who knows….I might even be tempted to purchase a blonde Siblie someday to make the “Rapunzel-like” long dress!
Isn’t that whole set just incredible? Elizabeth’s daughter has the sweetest mama! Elizabeth, you are amazing!
Thanks for sharing your talent with us!
See everyone tomorrow,
Blessings, Jeanne
